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Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Meditations and discourses on the glory of Christ, in his person, office, and grace with the differences between faith and sight applied unto the use of them that believe / by the late Reverend John Owen, D.D.
London: printed by B.A., 1691
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. IN him the Relation of our nature unto God, is eternally secured. We were created in a Covenant Relation unto God. Our Nature was related unto him in a way of Friendship, of Likeness, and Complacency. But the Bond of this Relation and Union was quickly broken by our Apostasy from him. Hereon our whole Nature became to be at the utmost Moral distance from God, and Enmity against him, which is the depth of Misery. But God in Infinite Wisdom and Grace did design once more to recover it, and take it again near unto himself. And he would do it in such a way, as should ⟨image 4⟩render it utterly impossible that there should ever be a Separation between him and it any more. Heaven and Earth may pass away, but there shall never be a Dissolution of the Union between God and our Nature any more. He did it therefore, by assuming it into a substantial Union with himself, in the Person of the Son. Hereby the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in it Bodily, or Substantially, and Eternally. Hereby is its Relation unto God eternally secured. And among all the Mysterious Excellencies which relate hereunto, there are two which continually present themselves unto our consideration.
2. IN him the Relation of our nature unto God, is eternally secured. We were created in a Covenant Relation unto God. Our Nature was related unto him in a way of Friendship, of Likeness, and Complacency. But the Bond of this Relation and Union was quickly broken by our Apostasy from him. Hereon our whole Nature became to be at the utmost Moral distance from God, and Enmity against him, which is the depth of Misery. But God in Infinite Wisdom and Grace did design once more to recover it, and take it again near unto himself. And he would do it in such a way, as should ⟨image 4⟩render it utterly impossible that there should ever be a Separation between him and it any more. Heaven and Earth may pass away, but there shall never be a Dissolution of the Union between God and our Nature any more. He did it therefore, by assuming it into a substantial Union with himself, in the Person of the Son. Hereby the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in it Bodily, or Substantially, and Eternally. Hereby is its Relation unto God eternally secured. And among all the Mysterious Excellencies which relate hereunto, there are two which continually present themselves unto our consideration.